Event Information

Venue(s):
Academy of Music

Conductor(s):
John [minstrel, conductor] Braham

Event Type:
Minstrel

Record Information

Status:
Published

Last Updated:
29 June 2018

Performance Date(s) and Time(s)

08 Jun 1868, 1:30 PM

Program Details

“150 professional minstrel and vocal artists, through the courtesy of the managers of Bryants’ Minstrels, San Francisco Minstrels, Kelly and Leon’s Minstrels, Hooley’s Minstrels, Brooklyn; Tony Pastor’s Opera House, Theatre Comique, also representatives from Sharpley and Cotton’s Minstrels and Emerson, Allen and Manning’s Minstrels” (cf. New York Herald, 06/02/68). Four complete orchestras.

Citations

1)
Advertisement: New York Herald, 02 June 1868.
2)
Advertisement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1868, 71.
3)
Announcement: New York Clipper, 06 June 1868, 70, 3d col., top.
4)
Announcement: New York Herald, 08 June 1868, 4.
5)
Review: New York Clipper, 20 June 1868, 86, 3d col., bottom.

Brief: “The benefit which took place at the Academy of Music on the afternoon of the 8th inst., for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, was a great success. The Academy was crowded and the receipts were over one thousand dollars.”